Councillors on Bradley Stoke Town Council say they will consider supporting a scheme to reduce CO2 emissions and cut electricity bills by turning off some of the town’s streetlights overnight, but only if the financial savings are passed on to local residents. South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) has been trialing overnight switch-offs in the village of Charfield since June 2009 and
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Two local Brownie packs are to benefit from grants awarded by Bradley Stoke Town Council. The 2nd Little Stoke pack has been given £375 towards the cost of a trip and the 2nd Stoke Lodge pack, which meets at the Jubilee Centre, £500 towards running costs. Three-quarters of the Brownies attending the packs are said to be from Bradley Stoke.
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Bowls legend David Bryant CBE, three-times world champion and four-times Commonwealth Games champion, is to perform the opening ceremony of the new Bradley Stoke Bowls Club on Saturday 1st May. Representatives of the City & County of Bristol Bowling Association and the Gloucestershire Bowling Association are also expected to attend the event. The sport is returning to the Baileys Court
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Conservative Councillors have welcomed the signing of an agreement between Bradley Stoke Town Council (BSTC), South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) and Southern Brooks Community Partnership (SBCP) that secures annual funding of £93,000 for youth work in Bradley Stoke. Councillors claim that the new agreement will produce “better value for the money that both Councils put into youth services in the town”.
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Councillors on Bradley Stoke Town Council’s Planning Committee have taken exception to proposals from South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) to install a number of ‘raised table’ cycle crossings in the town. As reported last month, SGC has opened a consultation on plans to install the crossings on Baileys Court Road, Fiddlers Wood Lane and across the access road to Bradley Stoke
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Bradley Stoke’s Deputy Mayor Ben Walker has expressed concern over obstruction of the pavement around the recently-erected works compound at Bradley Stoke Surgery on Brook Way. He raised the matter at last Wednesday’s Planning Committee meeting, asking if ISG Pearce – the contractor working on the surgery extension project, had permission to obstruct the highway in this way. He also
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Bradley Stoke Town Council (BSTC) has been stung by a massive hike in the business rates it has to pay for the Jubilee Centre following the discovery of a clerical error made by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) in 2005. This week’s meeting of the Council’s Finance Committee was told that a “manual error” within the records held by HMRC’s
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Cllr Robert Jones, arch-defender of Bradley Stoke’s media image, has replied to a critical letter that appeared last week in the Bristol Evening Post. In a letter headed “Scrap these Councils“, an unnamed reader had questioned the need for a Town Council in Bradley Stoke and called for “[Councillors’] pay and expense details [to be] published under the Freedom of
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The Planning Committee of Bradley Stoke Town Council has lodged a strongly-worded objection to a change of usage application for the site of the Bristol Motorcycle Training Centre in the south-east corner of the town. The centre, located within the Vantage Office Park on Old Gloucester Road, was established in 1979 and claims to have been the country’s first purpose
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Hopes of seeing a new resident bowling club at the Baileys Court green have taken a step forward with the inaugural meeting of the Bradley Stoke Bowls Club. Over forty people, including many former members of the now disbanded Northavon Bowling Club, attended the meeting on Tuesday 13th January. The meeting was also attended by the Mayor of Bradley Stoke,
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